Analysis of Kitchen Raid

Brady Bowen 1973 (Louisiana)



hot bread and buttermelt and ribbon cane
blacksweet running down my hand as
we run from grandma’s kitchen laughing
on the inside for we are commandos of
the Acadiana summer but supposed to stay
outside do I own the power company?


Scheme ABCDEF
Poetic Form
Metre 11010101 1101111 11111010 1001111011 011010111 11111010100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 232
Words 42
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 187
Words per stanza (avg) 41

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Childhood sneaking

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Written on March 13, 2022

Submitted by BradyB999 on March 14, 2022

Modified on April 11, 2023

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